Rock Thrown at Vehicle on Ygnacio Valley Rd. in Concord

A vehicle was hit with a rock this morning on Ygnacio Valley Rd. in Concord, according to the driver, who says it happened just after 2am.

Here’s the story….

I was headed to work this morning at 2:20 am, headed down Ygnacio Valley Rd. towards Walnut Creek. Just before I reached Cowell I heard what sounded like an explosion in my car. It hurt my ears. I slowed down and carefully searched for the source. It’s 2:20 am and I am a female, no way I’m stopping to investigate unless I smell smoke or my car is disabled. When I got to work, I got out of my car and searched again. Nothing inside my car but I did notice a large gash in the side of my car that wasn’t there before. It was clearly a rock that had been thrown at my car. There were no other cars on the road and with the location, there is no way my tires kicked it up. Just want to warn others to be careful.

I had the same thing happen as I was on 242 approaching the Willow Pass exit at around 5:15pm. I was passing the self storage facility when I saw this large rock flying right towards my windshield. Besides scaring the bejesus out of me, It caused an immediate crack, which grew longer and longer as I made my way into Concord. I quickly looked around and I could see some kids hiding between the bushes and the storage facility running away in my rearview mirror. Maybe it is a wrong assumption on my part regarding the kids but I figured they were messing around and had nothing better to do than to cause some destruction. Thankfully I didn’t swerve into another vehicle. Unfortunately, this cost me $350.00 to replace the windshield. Bummer.

Oh, please, nytemuvr, re-think the scenario! A rock does not leave a gash. It had to have been a bullet or something faster than a flying bullet or maybe a dragon’s fang. And how does one “be careful” of those things when driving a car? Anyone?

They did that on Mythbusters. They crashed a car at 50 mph into a brick wall, then another at 100 mph. Then they crashed two cars in a head on collision, each going at 50 mph and Jamie’s conclusion was that since each car was traveling at 50 mph the force of impact was equal to one car traveling at 100 mph. Technically that’s true, if one combines the damage of both cars. However, in a later episode, they realized they were wrong. Both cars suffered the same damage as if they both hit a brick wall at 100 mph is incorrect. The damage both cars got was nearly equal to the damage suffered by one car hitting the brick wall at 50 mph. The minor difference is because of the wall and car consistencies and materials of construction.

Bottom line… the rock hit the car at speed x which isn’t enough to dent the car. However the car hit the rock at speed y which IS enough to dent the car.

Point being… whether you’re a male or a female, if something like this is happening, you continue for another few hundred meters as nothing happened, pull over and call the police.

Water Balloon was thrown at my daughter’s car in Piedmont from a overpass. Very scary thud, scared to get out and check, but saw no damage
later, just water splash marks.
Why are people so mean and angry? Don;t do that to people or karma will get you!

Heard of children of alcoholic parents syndrome?
This is children of wealthy liberals syndrome. Untouchable and spoiled.
I would suggest bringing back corporal punishment for the juvenile system since the parenting in California is sorely lacking.
Caning seems to be effective in Singapore.

My roommate had the same thing happen about a month or so ago.
Her windshield cracked so bad she had to have the repair company come to her as she could hardly see out.
She was on 680 and passing Willow Pass Rd area…. There was no one in front of her and the rock came at her in the air.

Sorry to hear that some punk a$$ kids (who were probably up well past their bedtime, while their crackhead parents were stoned out) did this to you. Next time, if you see the little scumbags, stop. then reverse your car and go after them. that should scare the sh-t of out of them.

I had the exact same thing happen to me many years ago as I drove my F150 on 580 toward Knowland Zoo. Yes, I know it’s in East Oakland. Something large came hard and fast upwards, from below the freeway towards my windshield and left a dent where the roof meets the window. That’s not an easy place to dent in an ’85 F150., either. It was in the middle of the day, I was driving at freeway speed, and kept going. I figgured it was someone immature, with a wicked pitching arm.

I had that happen to me in Danville while dropping off a friend. Little did that brat know the friend I was dropping off was 6’6 male who jumped out of the car, chased him down and got all of his information (took picture of his ID and everything). Found out he was an 20 year old “kid”, adopted, lived in a gated community AND had a child of his own.

nytemuvr, Do you remember that chimp at Fleishhacker Zoo who would fill his mouth with water and spit it in a stream at the onlookers? That was in the ’60s, and back then the animals were in rediculously small cages with nothing much to do. He gave us such a laugh!

Silvia, yes and yes…I think it was one of those baboons, not orangutans, with the red butt that threw their crap, great fun to watch the tourists scatter. Their cages back then were only 20’x20′ at the most.